Contributor: Louis Rastelli

Louis Rastelli helps operate a non-profit arts organization, Arcmtl, which promotes, distributes and archives local independent culture. In this capacity he organizes the Expozine annual bilingual small press fair and runs the Distroboto network of former cigarette vending machines that now sell art, music, films, books etc. in bars and libraries around Montreal. He is also a writer whose recent novel, A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press) is set in the Plateau/ Mile End district in the 1990s.

one sunrise at a time

Hemmed in by the human activity surrounding it, it has been razed to the ground repeatedly since that time. It has held train cars, parked automobiles, and collected bonfire wood. And each time, many of the same plants that have thrived on it for centuries would come back. Within a few years, once again, the field would return to its recognizable self.